DJ Drama on Discovering Lil Uzi Vert & Jack Harlow, The N Word, DatPiff & More

Dj Drama sat down with Adam to talk about his impact on the music industry, Lil Uzi Vert, Jack Harlow, the DatPiff era, and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 0:05 Adam and Drama met in Atlanta with Shoreline Mafia years ago, Drama says he wishes he would have talked with Adam a bit more back then 3:00 Drama speaks on the conception of Gangsta Grillz and says he would've never seen this trajectory coming 7:00 Drama on how the game is constantly changing and speaks on how hip hop is a young man's sport 10:30 Drama on having a high percentage of finding young undiscovered artists and speaks on how Jack Harlow becoming a generational talent 13:00 Drama speaks on Uzi being the first person he signed to Atlantic 15:00 Drama on seeing the vision in artists that he signs and how they want to be great is a key attribute to look for and says that success doesn't always bring out positive things in a person 24:30 Drama speaks on how he doesn't mind playing behind the scenes and how attention has become less appealing as he got older 27:00 Drama on how people became aware of him via Jack Harlow or Lil Uzi Vert and the negative connotation behind "riding waves" 29:40 Drama on watching The Roots come up, playing video games with Questlove when he was younger and says that these experiences is an ode to how long he's been in the game 33:20 Drama speaks on his relationship with Stevie Williams 41:40 Drama on if he's always understood the importance of building relationships with people and networking 43:00 Drama speaks on if artists have ever been upset about not having the top spot on his tapes 44:00 Drama speaks on the backlash he received from Lil Uzi Vert saying the reason for the holdup in music because of him + How artists feel like they need you less the more successful they get 48:00 Drama on artists not realizing the value of equity and says it's very rare for an artist to stay with their original team 50:30 Drama speaks on the success of Jack Harlow, his love for Jack's authenticity as a White rapper and says that Jack is very